Author: KMAN Staff

A Fort Riley man arrested in connection with a fatal shooting last week in Ogden has been brought back to Riley County from Georgia,where he turned himself in Thursday afternoon. Monday morning’s Riley County Police arrest report indicates Tierre Wall, 26, was booked into the Riley County Jail shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday. As previously announced Wall faces a voluntary manslaughter charge, with bond set at $150,000. The Tuesday morning shooting in Ogden resulted in the death of  Casey Lindley, 27, of Ogden.

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The Ohio River crested Sunday at its highest level in two decades. The National Weather Service said the river crested at 57.7 feet, or seven feet below the 1997 level that caused severe, widespread flooding around Cincinnati and in Kentucky.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP)–Troy Tulowitzki and Justin Morneau hit home runs on consecutive pitches in the first inning, lifting the Colorado Rockies to a 6-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Tulowitzki’s liner off Royals rookie Aaron Brooks curled inside the left field foul pole. The two-run shot was the second of the spring for Tulowitzki, who also made a diving play at shortstop as he shows no ill-effects from season-ending hip surgery. Morneau, the 2014 NL batting champ, sent Brooks’ next pitch halfway up the g rassy seating area in left center. “Today was a nice little show…

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By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications Despite erasing a four-run deficit with the help of a game-tying, bases-clearing double by Max Brown in the seventh inning, the K-State baseball team surrendered three two-out runs in the eighth that led to a 10-7 defeat at the hands of Missouri State on Sunday at Tointon Family Stadium. Trailing 7-3 entering the bottom half of the seventh, Carter Yagi drew a leadoff walk and Clayton Dalrymple recorded the second of his three singles in the game to help put runners on base for the Wildcats (10-9). After back-to-back outs and a Steve Serratore…

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Updated 5:30 a.m. Monday: Junction City Police have arrested a suspect in a Sunday homicide case.  Daniel Edwards, 34, was taken into custody shortly before 11:30 Sunday night after being located in Topeka by the Topeka Police Department. Junction City Police Detectives responded to Topeka, interviewed Edwards, arrested him, and transported him back to Junction City where he was confined at the Geary County Detention Center with no bond. Edwards faces charges in connection with the death of Sharon Moody, 52, of Junction City. As KMAN earlier reported, Moody was found shortly before 3:30 Sunday afternoon at her home in…

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court has thrown out the 50-year prison sentence of a man convicted of fatally shooting his uncle in 2008 in Kansas City, Kansas. While ordering Friday that a Wyandotte County trial court resentence Mark Salary, the state’s high court upheld Salary’s first-degree murder conviction in the death of Valray Estell, who at that time of the shooting was his live-in uncle. Authorities had alleged that Salary shot 58-year-old Estell and left him to die in a burning house. Salary had insisted the shooting was self-defense. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Kansas Supreme Court…

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Riley County Police arrested a Manhattan man Saturday night for aggravated burglary. Robert Melcher (21) was also charged with criminal damage to property after he was apprehended in the 1400 block of Fairchild RD. Melcher was confined on a $6,00 bond, but has since been released.

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